Discussion of getting WMC to work on Windows 10 (unsupported)
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Unable to install WMC on repair install of windows 10
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DracoMan671 » Sat Jan 23, 2021 5:25 pm
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i recently refreshed my win10 install and now when i try to install the WMC pack it says it is already installed, however the 'C:\Windows\ehome' directory is no longer there and has been moved to 'C:\Windows.old\ehome' copying the files back and running the uninstaller does not work either, what...
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this did not solve issue, same problem
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Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:59 pm
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WMC 8.8.5 not detecting HDHomeRun PRIME tuners
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scottward01 » Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:26 pm
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Hello - I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and installed WMC 8.8.5 in the hopes that it would detect my HDHomeRun PRIME tuners, as these are supposed to work 'out of the box' with WMC 8.8.5, but unfortunately WMC is saying it cannot detect any tuners in my system, despite the fact that they work...
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Honestly, turning off Windows update is a deal-breaker for me. I could have stayed with Windows 7 and had no issues with WMC, but that seemed like a dead end.
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Last post by scottward01
Sat Jan 23, 2021 6:26 pm
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WMC DRM on Windows 10 past build 10586.0
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daniel.delillo » Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:23 pm
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So I'm using Windows 10 Media Center on build 10586.0, which is the last build I know of that supported DRM for the SiliconDust prime 3. Did I miss anything about supporting DRM past build 10586?
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I'm afraid not.
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Last post by technodevotee
Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:09 pm
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Customize Keyboard Shortkeys?
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BGChicago » Sun Jan 10, 2021 6:53 pm
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Title pretty much says it all - has anyone ever seen or accomplish custom keyboard shortcuts?
Thanks in advance.
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Title pretty much says it all - has anyone ever seen or accomplish custom keyboard shortcuts?
AutoHotHey is a popular utility. You have to do a little reading, but it works well.
Thanks. That seems to be the way to go.
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Sat Jan 16, 2021 8:28 pm
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Channel Changes to Record When Tuners Are Available
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smowk » Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:11 pm
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Hey Everyone! Longtime lurker first time poster.
I have had this issue for years, but I recently updated to a Windows 10 Machine, WMC 8.8.5, and a WinTV Quad Tuner and hoped it would go away, but it didn't.
Whenever a scheduled recording takes place, it switches my liveTV to that channel even...
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All 4 tuners are checked off for all channels. I thought this could have something to do with tuner priority, but I have played around with that in the past with no luck.
The saga continues.
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Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:08 pm
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Hauppauge WinTV PVR500 in WMC
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sebas197422 » Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:15 pm
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Hi,
I can't get my hauppauge dvr500 mce card enabled in WMC because of the low bit rerate error, all i need is an kb from microsoft but the links are not there anymore my question is if someone can help with these updates you need for the error!
thankS!
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yep this did the trick a had 12 gb of memory and no i use only 2 gb and it is working again, thanks !
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Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:11 pm
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Why WMC video quality is/was/will always be poor (unless this is fixed)
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incog » Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:08 pm
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It's always bothered me that video output on WMC looks somewhat blurry and lacking in dynamics.
Well, for some reason, WMC does not display the rightmost column of pixels (even with display type TV, overscan off, TV set to 1:1 fit) AND no matter the video decoder (MF, LAV, ffdshow...)
Just about...
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Thinking about this a little more... If it isn't codec related, one difference between WMC and wmp is the now playing viewport, whose existance documented in the WMC sdk. This is the container in WMC that holds the playing video, and it gets manipulated throughout various views in WMC. For instance...
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Last post by jachin99
Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:51 pm
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ModernUI+theme interface - pressing Play does not show seek bar
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mmatheny » Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:07 pm
So after at first not liking the ModernUI+ theme interface, I got where I like it and the extra features. However there is ONE thing that made me go back - when watching a show, in the standard interface I could press Play and the scrub bar/seek bar would come up so I could see where I was in the...
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Last post by mmatheny
Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:07 pm
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Audio Out of HTPC HDMI v. PC speaker
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alect71 » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:36 am
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I recently upgtaded to Win10 (and WMC on that) from Win7. Never had this problem on Win7:
HTPC is connected to TV via HDMI. So audio output goes out to TV.
When I switched off the TV last night going to bed, the audio out defaulted to PC speaker. Since we don't switch off WMC overnight (as some...
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Hi,
I'm running two WMC 8.8.5 installations on W10 64-bit builds 19042.631 & 19042.685 (current 2H20+fixes) on both AMD HD6570 and NVIDIA GT710 video cards using HDMI connections to two AVRs (for video & audio).
If I'm watching WMC TV and turn off my AVR and/or HDTV, I had audio switch back to my...
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Last post by babcod
Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:15 pm
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WMC on Win 10 20H2 ?
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1ST1 » Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:06 pm
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Looks like it doesn't work? What to do?
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I've not seen this actual problem myself but a few people have reported it on a fresh installation. Unfortunately, we don't ever seem to hear what the resolution was.
I have a couple of thoughts on the matter.
Firstly, the later versions of Windows 10 seem a lot more memory hungry than previous...
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Last post by technodevotee
Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:08 pm
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How do I disable full screen optimisations? + a question
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star » Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:00 pm
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Hi
This seems to be the bane of a number of users. I keep finding posts asking how they do this, only to find follow-on answers which are bizarrely vague and more often than not entirely unhelpful.
If someone could simply put a definitive guide for how this can be done, as of this post's date,...
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As for my question: why must WMC be run from the \Windows directory? I tried to cut>paste the folder in program files, but it won't run (which isn't unexpected). Since we're working with a patched version of the program on W10, while I hate being an uneducated non-coder, I have to ask why it's...
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Last post by technodevotee
Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:51 pm
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White line in WMC in 4K at 60hz
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pnag » Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:59 pm
Evening, all,
I'm at my wits end here - I've tried the registry hack (logical width dropped by a pixel) but the white line at the right hand side of the screen persists; I thought I had seen someone posting about permissions that had to be set for it to stick as well? Can't find it now though....
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Last post by pnag
Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:59 pm
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TV card busy for live tv
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1ST1 » Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:14 pm
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Hello, I have installed WMC 8.8.4 on Win 10 1903. I have a twin DVBs card and it is setup to work with WMC. It does record TV fine from epg. But for live TV the card is always busy, even if there is currently no recording. It looks like the recording service always takes the TV card and never ends....
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Thanks
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Last post by 1ST1
Sun Dec 27, 2020 10:55 am
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Windows Media Center 8.8.5 is out
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Pinpoint » Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:03 pm
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Hey everyone :D
8.8.5 is now publicly available:
Here's the changelog:
The package was updated to automatically restore the Microsoft SQL CE components (sqlcecompact40, sqlceoledb40, sqlceqp40 and sqlcese40) that were removed by Microsoft in Windows 10 2004.
Note: if you have used...
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Cheers will give that version a try this evening
@djiain Did you get this to work?
Gr. E
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Last post by Erwin
Fri Dec 25, 2020 10:07 pm
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Opinions sought: Moving to Windows 10 WMC?
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RodBarnes » Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:28 pm
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I've been running WMC 6.1 on my original Win7 HTPC for over 10 years. It all still works pretty well but, hardware-wise, it's getting a little old. Certainly, there is some merit to just keeping this system as it is (no worries about MS updates ruining things) but I'd like to prevent my having to...
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WMC 8.8.5 works well for most people even on Windows 10 20H2 but there are some issues.
It is only available for 64bit versions.
Some people have reported issues with using older tuners.
The feature that downloads metadata for the music library causes WMC to crash and needs to be disabled....
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Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:15 pm
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Replacing Windows 10 Computer
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Erwin » Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:20 pm
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Hi all,
Thanks for reading my post!
Made myself a new account, it was too long ago to remember old login. (sorry Opp.)
I am a very happy WMC user since 2009.
Started with WMC in the easy XP times,
Now I didn't touch the system for many years (if it ain't broke....) I disabled system updates so...
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Nobody?
And i thought its was a easy one :D :shock: :lol:
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Last post by Erwin
Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:23 am
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Is it possible to edit ehshell.dll to change how WMC works?
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incog » Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:13 pm
Hello all.
I've long since wanted to change a few things in the way WMC works that are not accessible via user options or registry entries.
One thing is I want is to change is how music albums are sorted in the album view under the genre sub-menu. The default is by album title, but it would be...
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Last post by incog
Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:13 pm
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Trying to install WMC under Windows 10
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marty_in_mesa » Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:55 pm
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I was running find on an HTPC running Windows 7 for YEARS. Then one day, it could not find the tuners, from one minute to the next....
So, after doing some searching, I found that WMC was adapted to run under Windows 10. So, I got a spare Lenovo Tiny M92P, got it all updated.
I have two...
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If your cable system is mostly DRM, then it is pointless trying to set up WMC on Win10, as it does not support recording/viewing DRM channels, just like SiliconDust's DVR.
Only WMC on Win7 & Win8 support recording/viewing of DRM channels.
Ya, sadly I tried setting up another Win 7 PC....I give...
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Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:31 am
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WMC 10 Setup Help
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atmassie476 » Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:00 pm
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I may be kicking a dead dog but is there anyway to get WMC to access all my channels like I did in windows 7? I am running windows 10 Pro Build 1909
OS build 18363.1256.
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My tuner card is a Hauppauge winTv quadHD and my cable service is with Sparklight formerly Newave communication. I can't think of anything else but if you need more info just let me know what you want. Thanks
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Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:50 pm
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WMC stopped working after Windows Update
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Mugsy » Sat Dec 12, 2020 1:28 am
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ARGH! I was watching TV using WMC when Windows announced it needed to reboot to finish an Update.
I postponed until the next commercial then rebooted to complete the update.
When I finally got back into Windows, when I launch WMC (v8.8.5), it reports No tuner found (tuner is fine. Works with other...
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I have no idea why, but miraculously the problem fixed itself this morning (yes, I've rebooted numerous times since then.)
Last night, I was still getting an error when the recorder attempted to start, but this morning I was stunned to see the red Recording button in the tray. I launched WMC...
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Last post by Mugsy
Sun Dec 13, 2020 3:15 pm
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WMC and Win 10 Build 21277 - HVR-2200 tuner problem
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Speedy » Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:53 pm
Hi. Up to this build, WMC 8.8.5 worked on my machine perfectly. After upgrade from 21270 to the latest 21277 prerelease and WMC 8.8.5 reinstallation I have problem with TV tuner (Hauppauge HVR-2200). When WMC run, I've chose my standard options (country: Poland, region code etc. and source: DVB-T...
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Last post by Speedy
Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:53 pm
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Updated Windows 10 and old Windows 7 WMC
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annonymous9999 » Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:56 am
We bought a new windows 10 laptop for Christmas and it has the latest windows 10 updates. My main WMC system is Windows 7 Premium on a hdhomerun cablecard. COX is DRM happy. Is there a way to access recoreded shows on the newer windows 10 builds people have been able to figure out. It looks like...
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Last post by annonymous9999
Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:56 am
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WMC 8.8.5 and cetonproxy
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scottward01 » Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:08 pm
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Cetonproxy is An app that allows a Ceton InfiniTV PCI/network tuner to appear as a SiliconDust HDHomeRun to DVR apps, as indicated on the Github development site. I've been successfully using cetonproxy with Emby for the last few months and it seems quite stable.
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Hi Gary - I did install the Ceton drivers after installing WMC 8.8.5, but still no luck.
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Last post by scottward01
Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:05 pm
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WMC tapped show will freeze along with the mouse
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dojo » Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:35 am
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Starting to have a new problem with WMC,, when I am playing a tapped show from WMC ,, sometimes the show will freeze and the mouse freezes also,,, try to back track sometimes it helps and sometimes it does not,, then all of a sudden the show will continue that we are watching what was pre-tapped....
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Thank you very much for your input,,, APPRECIATED....
Be safe Old John
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Last post by dojo
Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:21 pm
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While recording show hit pause, does it pause recording?
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sdowney717 » Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:07 am
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I did not think it did. We were recording the football game, I had hit the red button. Then clicked pause.
It recorded about 26 minutes of the game.
I ate dinner, then went back to view it and recording was off.
So why would it not continue to record the after game was over stuff?
Was that some...
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So you can not record a full live event since the end is unknown? Unles your sitting there watching it to click record again?
You mention adding padding to the recording to the recording while it is recording, how do you do that?
I don't have access to WMC at the moment, but if you go to the...
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Fri Nov 27, 2020 6:17 pm
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